Stay in the know with VTCRC news & happenings. Sign up for our email list.

Upcoming opportunities for your company with NASA and the DoD Small Business and Technology Partnerships Office, plus upcoming Small Business Development Center webinars.

ROSES-20 AMENDMENT 70: NEW OPPORTUNITY IN ROSES: E.12 SPACE BIOLOGY

The NASA Space Biology Program (formerly the Space Life and Physical Sciences Research and Applications Division of HEOMD) element focuses on ideas that will increase NASA’s understanding of how living systems respond to the unique environments that are encountered during space exploration, including the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) environment inside the International Space Station (ISS) and deep space conditions beyond LEO, including transit to and maintenance in Lunar and Martian environments. Therefore, this program element solicits proposals for investigations that characterize how living systems respond and adapt to spaceflight or spaceflight-like conditions.

Program Element E.12 Space Biology, solicits four different Projects Types; Research Investigations, Expanded Integrative Investigations, Early Career Investigations, and GeneLab Analytical Investigations. These Project Types may be limited to one of the specific platforms (i.e., ISS-flight vs. ground) as well as to one or more of the specific focus areas (Integrated Animal Physiology, Plant Biology, or Microbial Ecosystems). Thus, proposers are strongly encouraged to read this program element carefully to ensure that their applications are compliant with the requirements for each Project Type and focus area.

Amendment 70 Releases a new opportunity in ROSES-2020 in the form of this program element: E.12 Space Biology. Step-1 Proposals are due December 17, 2020 and Step-2 proposals are due March 23, 2021.

On or about November 17, 2020, this Amendment to the NASA Research Announcement “Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) 2020” (NNH20ZDA001N) will be posted on the NASA research opportunity homepage at http://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2020 and will appear on SARA’s ROSES blog at: https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/grant-solicitations/roses-2020/.

Questions concerning E.12 Space Biology may be directed to spacebiology@nasaprs.com.

THE DOD SMALL BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIPS OFFICE ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF THE FOLLOWING BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENTS (BAA) TOPICS:

DARPA BAA HR001120S0019

“Next-Generation Approaches to Structural Biology”, Announcement Number HR001120S0019-23, published at https://beta.sam.gov/search?keywords=HR001120S0019-23&sort=-relevance&index=opp&is_active=true&page=1
“High-throughput, non-destructive methods for elemental analysis of environmental microbes”, Announcement Number HR001120S0019-24, published at https://beta.sam.gov/search?keywords=HR001120S0019-24&sort=-relevance&index=opp&is_active=true&page=1

IMPORTANT DATES:

  • November 17, 2020: BAA opens, begin submitting proposals in DSIP
  • December 17, 2020: BAA closes, full proposals must be submitted in DSIP no later than 12:00 p.m. ET

Full topics and instructions are available at the links provided above.

Please be sure to submit your proposals as early as possible in order to avoid unexpected delays due to high volume of traffic during the final hours before BAA close. Report system difficulties to the DSIP Help Desk IMMEDIATELY and include screenshots of any error messages received.

SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER WORKSHOPS

Contact VTCRC with questions.